Lt JG Tess Evinrude - Top Secret, Starfleet Intel, Do Not Open!

[Tess Evinrude]

((Deck 09, Flight Deck Aft, USS Ronin))

Evinrude: Major! ::Then, to Tucker.:: Commander! They...they're not dead. Ours aren't dead. The flight recorder should hopefully tell us more about the timeline, but we didn't lose the Niac and Raga that we knew. ::He corrected himself.:: That we know.

He stepped a few paces away and slapped at his combadge.

Evinrude: =/\= Evinrude to...science. ::His voice grew a little impatient, but not angrily so.::  To...anyone in Stellar Cartography!

Stellar Cartography (i.e., Solana/Dekas/Esot and/or T'Fearne): Response

Solana: =/\= Go ahead, LT. We’re listening, so take a breath. =/\=

Evinrude: =/\= ::At SCPO Solana's response, he slowed his breathing, and smoothed his tone.:: Not to rush you, but have you cracked into the flight recorder yet? We may have good news.

Marty moved away from the group to inspect a piece of debris that had just materialized. Evinrude managed to pay attention to his query and the comm call.

Tucker: ::pointing to the object in question:: Is it me, or is that a coaxial warp drive? I’ve read about them but never seen one before. This could explain a few things.

Nemes/Singh: Response

Solana: =/\= Not yet, we’ve been preoccupied with other observations and these scans aren’t matching up. What’s the good news? =/\=

Dekas/T'Fearne/Esot: Response (Optional, if you decide that the comm channel is open)

Evinrude: =/\= Right, so even though some version of the Ronin has lost their commanding officers, ours could still be out there. Let us know when you unravel the version of the recorder that found us...I hope it helps us find our missing crew. Evinrude out. =/\=

Closing out the channel, Tess walked over to see what had drawn Chief Tucker's attention. Immediately, he could tell that the piece of damaged tech was unusual.

Nemes: Response

Evinrude turned towards Sybil and nodded, echoing her sentiment.

Tucker: Story time, kids: a Coaxial Warp drive is a theoretical propulsion system proposed by Starfleet engineers. They bounced the theory around for years. The problem was that, when used, it would fold space, allowing the user to travel any distance in an instant. Of course, folding space is a pretty violent procedure. What made this even more dangerous was that, if there was a warp core breach, it could collapse space over a distance of one billion kilometers. That’s B for billions. One of the problems is that the polaric modulator is prone to attack from chronoelectic pulses….

Evinrude: ::With an incredulous look.:: Why would anyone ever use this?

Nemes/Singh: Response

Tucker: I’m just saying, this thing could be a source or at least one of the reasons the eddy is there in the first place. Or at least a contributing factor, as it could have been one of Kurosawa’s, as we know now, there were several, all from different times.

For such a technology to be adopted, the Federation in that timeline must be desperate. Or stupid.

Nemes/Singh: Response

Marty continued to run some scans of the strange warp drive module.

Tucker: Yeah, I was right, definitely from a different reality or time, I can’t really tell which. Tricorders and internal sensors are only about half their capacity now that we’ve moved farther from the anomaly. 

Evinrude: ::Sounding concerned.:: I'm no fan of DTI meddling, but this sounds like something we need to handle by the book. It's dangerous, not from this timeline, and also badly damaged. This thing falls into the wrong hands, and we've got some reckless tinkerer collapsing a billion square kilometers of space. ::He straightened a little, making his tone of voice more formal.:: Permission to quarantine the unit, sir.

Nemes/Singh/Tucker: Response

Evinrude got to work tagging the dangerous relic. It would ride safely aboard the Ronin in a high-security area before the ship's next opportunity to drop it off at a Starbase equipped to handle such a thing.

((OOC: I believe this group will be heading to the bridge soon, so I'm closing out my involvement in this scene at Timm's request. At the start of my next scene, I'll elaborate a bit more!))

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Lieutenant J.G. Tess Evinrude

[he/him]

Operations Officer

USS Ronin

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